what does it mean when the hard drive light in front of laptop is solid, dosen't flash?

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joseph

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When i sign in it is really slow cant open anything only the task manager. The hard drive light in front of the laptop dosent blink it just stays solid. How can i fix that?
 
It means that some program is accessing your hard drive.
Run virus, Malware scans AVG and Malwarebytes are free on the web.
Your hard drive may be too full. Less that 20% free space may cause this.
Read errors on the hard drive may cause this.
Browser cache needs clearing. In IE, Tools, Internet Options, General tab, Browsing History, Delete.

Download/install Advanced System Care, free on the web. Has many useful tools

Good Luck
 
The light is ON when the hard drive is being accessed.

If it's steady, that means somethings reading or writing the heck out of your disk, and not giving it a break. That would definitely explain your slowdown. Antivirus scans and indexing tools can do this.

If you're familiar with the Windows Task Manager, you can go to the Processes tab, and under the View menu add columns such as I/O Read/Write/Other bytes. Also show processes from other users. That might help track down the disk hogging culprit.

Or, if you have < 3GB of RAM installed, check the Performance Tab. If you're using > 80% of the physical memory currently installed, your system may be memory swapping, which certainly would explain the slowdown. XP typically needs 1GB to work without swapping, Vista and 7 need 2GB
 
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